Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-26 Thread Mohammed Bassit
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 16:20 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: I'm still a little shocked that F-Spot is still included by default. Any software developer or any geek with a basic understanding of software development and programming knows that F-Spot is one of the worst examples of programming

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-26 Thread Christopher Lees
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 12:00 +, Chris Jones wrote: I'm a photographic imaging professional and I use too many imaging apps to list here, but F-Spot is not one of them, for the simple reason it is slow, clunky and has crap file format support for anything outside of JPEG format. The

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-26 Thread Peteris Krisjanis
The Ubuntu Developers clearly have no understanding of this sector of technology and the IT industry and that sector being digital/photographic imaging. And if they did, they would ditch F-Spot and replace it with a suitable and real image management package. First of all, I think you are

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-26 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 10:11 +, Mohammed Bassit wrote: I'd really love to know more about the alternatives that have been mentioned a 100 times if you don't mind. I can't find any personally.Not that I like F-Spot, but I can't see much of an alternative. Cheers, Mohammed Bassit

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-25 Thread Chris Jones
I'm still a little shocked that F-Spot is still included by default. Any software developer or any geek with a basic understanding of software development and programming knows that F-Spot is one of the worst examples of programming code/platform. To put it simply, it's shocking and to be honest I

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-18 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Solang, Shotwell, and F-Spot are all fine image managers/organizers, but the current plan is to work on F-Spot to get it to meet the following needs: * Quickly viewing images by folder [currently handled by EOG] * Solang and F-Spot both have view-modes but still

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-08 Thread Sebastien Bacher
Le lundi 07 décembre 2009 à 21:24 -0500, Danny Piccirillo a écrit : Before too much effort is invested into making F-Spot good enough to meet all of the needs outlined at the UDS Default App Selection session, i thought i should bring up Solang and Shotwell to see if it might be worth

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-08 Thread Wouter Stomp
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Did anybody looked at how those other software handle exporting to flick, picasa or other web services? For Shotwell uploading to Flickr and Facebook is planned for 0.4 which is to be released in December. Picasa is

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-08 Thread Caleb Marcus
The bizarrely obnoxious bit about F-Spot import is that it copies everything to your photos folder BEFORE you actually accept the import. Then, if you don't accept it, it deletes them... which is just Bad Behavior. On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:57 AM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le

Re: Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-08 Thread Caleb Marcus
Actually, it seems to start importing as soon as you select a folder... then the dialog remains locked until it reads all the files in it. 2009/12/8 caleb.marcus+u-d-d caleb.marcus+u-...@gmail.comcaleb.marcus%2bu-...@gmail.com The bizarrely obnoxious bit about F-Spot import is that it copies

Solang or Shotwell vs. F-Spot for Lucid

2009-12-07 Thread Danny Piccirillo
Before too much effort is invested into making F-Spot good enough to meet all of the needs outlined at the UDS Default App Selection session, i thought i should bring up Solanghttp://santanu-sinha.blogspot.com/2009/06/solang.htmland Shotwell http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/ to see if it might be